TO COACH EFFECTIVELY, YOU HAVE TO INTERRUPT

In the last ACMC, which was in Bali Indonesia, we had a lot of people who culturally really struggled with the whole idea of interrupting. I think we had more people in that one event who struggled with interrupting than I have seen anywhere else. So session after session, instead of learning how to use the skill of “effectively interrupting” under Support, they just let the client go on and on and on and on! Once I caught on that it was due to a cultural frame that “It is impolite to interrupt,” I would interrupt the session and ask the coach, “Are you going to let this go on and on?” “Do you think it’s a good time to interrupt?” “Do you have enough information to ask a question yet?”